With Smile Bigga Plans, now you have more reasons to smile. Smile Communications offers 4G voice and data services in select towns and cities across Nigeria. Smile is superfast. We all know that. However, it has been known to be relatively expensive. This is no longer the case. With the Smile Bigga Plans, you now get more data for the same price. This is amazing. Now you can enjoy Smile’s superfast data and get more data to stay connected with.
It all started when they ran a poll on social media asking “Do you want more data?” You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to guess what the response was. Who doesn’t want more data? Data is never enough. Well, that led to them unveiling the #BiggerGotBetter offer. Now you enjoy more data when you recharge a Bigga plan.
To fully enjoy Smile data service, you would need to live in any of these cities;
Lagos
Abuja
Port Harcourt
Benin City
Ibadan
Kaduna
Onitsha
Asaba
To enjoy the Smile Bigga plans, you can trust the bills payment platform that gives you superfast, seamless transactions, VTpass. It’s as simple as:
Select the plan you want, Account ID, amount, phone number and email.
Proceed to payment (You can pay using card, bank transfer or wallet.)
Once your payment is completed, your Smile account gets credited with the data you paid for, no extra charges. And you can begin to enjoy superfast internet connection. Just head over to vtpass.com now to enjoy superfast payment and seamless transactions.
Banking halls these days can be tiring. Even before the start of the coronavirus pandemic, crowds in banking halls can simply put you off.
Nowadays, with a huge necessity to avoid crowded places; one needs to find alternatives to carryout most bank-related transactions without risking health and safety.
Here are a few ways VTpass can help you complete bank transactions while staying safe:
1. Pay Bills Online, Conveniently
Nothing feels better than being able to lay in bed, curl your toes and pay bills easily using your computer, tablet, or smartphone.
Our high traffic website: vtpass.com can be accessed on any platform and you can perform transactions in three easy steps; Login > Select > Pay!
VTpass has a wide range of options and our lists of services keep growing! You can:
Transfer money to any Nigerian bank, no matter the amount.
Buy airtime or data instantly: MTN, Airtel, Glo, 9mobile
Internet payment: Smile airtime, Smile data, etc.
Pay electricity bills whether prepaid or postpaid. Get meter token delivered to you instantly: IKEDC, IBEDC, EKEDC, AEDC, KEDCO, JED, PHED, KAEDCO, etc.
Renew TV subscriptions and get reconnected immediately : DStv, GOtv, StarTimes, etc.
Buy top-notch insurance covers from leading insurance companies in Nigeria: Third-party motor insurance, Health insurance, Personal accident insurance, Home insurance, etc.
Pay education bills such as WAEC Registration PIN, WAEC Checker PIN, etc.
2. Free Mobile App for Transactions
Enjoy the easy bill payment experience better when you download the VTpass mobile app from Google PlayStore. The app is optimized to work on any android devices.
With its lightweight, speed, and easy-navigation features, you can complete transactions anywhere, anytime by simply tapping few buttons.
3. Free VTpass Wallet
Technology makes life easier every day and so does VTpass. With VTpass auto-wallet, you can store funds for bills payment all in one place. It gives you a lot of benefits:
Separate funds for settling important bills from other funds by simply transferring your bills-funds to your VTpass wallet.
No need to input card details every time you wish to make payment. Just tap and pay.
Not a fan of online transactions? Why not visit a VTpass agent near you to carry out transactions. These are basically moms, shop-owners, students, etc partnering with us to serve you locally.
Payment is truly at your convenience with VTpass, no need to rush or queue in banks. Just visit vtpass.com! Innovation never stops here. We remain committed to making payment for everyday services easy and stress-free!
We love data, don’t we? The invisible glue that connects us to the internet while draining the life out of our wallets as well. Love or hate it, data has become as important as the food we eat. That is why we must learn to manage it efficiently. Many apps we use on our devices contain data-saving settings to help you manage data. The problem is, we just don’t know where to look.
In a previous article, we covered smart ways to save big on mobile data; in this article, we have detailed out data-saving settings on popular apps that you should apply right away if you are looking to browse more data efficiently:
Facebook
Video autoplay consumes the most data on Facebook. You can turn-off autoplay by doing the following:
Tap Menu (the three lines buttons) in the top right.
Scroll down and tap Settings & Privacy > Settings.
Scroll down and tap Media and Contacts (for iPhones users, you would select Videos and Photos before you proceed)
Tap Autoplay.
Select Never Autoplay Videos.
You can control how fast Facebook pictures loads by adjusting how many photos you want to see. To do this:
Tap Settings & Privacy at the bottom of the screen.
Tap General.
Tap Edit next to Data Usage.
Choose Less or Normal or More
Click Save.
Instagram
By default, Instagram preloads videos so they start faster whenever possible. To use less data on Instagram:
Go to your profile and tap the Menu button (the three-line icon)
Tap Settings below the Menu page.
Tap Account > Cellular Data Use.
Next to Use Less Data (iPhone) or Data Saver (Android), toggle on.
WhatsApp
Videos sent to you on WhatsApp can download automatically even when you don’t want to play it? To disable video autoplay on WhatsApp:
Tap the three vertical dots on the top right > Settings.
Now tap Chat settings > Media auto-download. (You’ll see three options: When using cellular data, When connected on Wi-Fi and When roaming)
Tap each one and disable auto-downloads by unchecking all three options – Images, Audio, and Video.
For iPhone users:
Open WhatsApp and tap the Settings button at the bottom-right, and tap on Data and Storage Usage.
In this menu, you will see the Media Auto-Download option on the top.
For Photos, Audio, Videos, and Documents, select the Never option.
Twitter
Like Facebook, Twitter also has an autoplay feature embedded in the app. You can disable this by following these steps:
Go to your Twitter profile icon
Click on Settings and Privacy
Select Data Usage
Set video autoplay to Never
YouTube
The video king app consumes a lot more data than most apps. To limit data usage on YouTube:
Tap on your profile icon on the option right corner
Select Settings
Click on General
Turn on Limit Mobile Data Usage
Google PlayStore
Apps auto-updates over mobile data are the main data drainer when it comes to PlayStore. You can choose to auto-update only over Wi-Fi or never auto-update. To disable mobile data auto-updates, do the following:
Open PlayStore
Click on Menu > Settings
Click on Auto-update Apps
Select Auto-update Apps over Wi-Fi Only (or you can choose Do Not Auto-Update Apps)
iPhone AppStore
Similar to PlayStore, apps on iPhone would auto-update by default unless you disable this feature or set it to Wi-Fi only. To do this:
Go to Settings on your iPhone
Click on iTunes and App Store
Turn off the apps you do not want to update
Turn off auto-update over mobile data below the menu
Manage your Sync Settings
While this is not an app, it is important to know that Google on Andriod and Apple on iPhone regularly sync with your phone data such as videos and pictures automatically. This is to provide backing and retrieval of data in case you lost your device, but it equally consumes a lot of data.
To manage your sync settings on Andriod:
Go to Settings
Click on Account Option
Click on the App whose sync settings you want to adjust
Turn off sync on apps you don’t need synchronizing
For iPhone users:
Open iTunes
Connect your device to a computer
Select your connected device from the Top device button
Go to Options in Summary Sections
Disable Automatic sync when this iPhone is connected
Close iTunes for change to take effect
Conclusion
Hopefully, these details save you more data for efficient browsing. Don’t forget that these settings apply to all mobile networks: MTN, Airtel, 9mobile, and Glo. If you are using a Wi-Fi connection such as Smile, you might need to go through the Wi-Fi settings to see how to manage data or reach out to Smile support.
You know that odd feeling you get when you’re two weeks into your one-month mobile data plan and your network provider sends you that heart-breaking message; “Dear Customer…”? Ahhh!
That thing dey pain eh! You start wondering how the data finished so fast, what you did with it and why it just can’t last for 30 days as provided by your network. I know how that feels, we’ve all been there.
In this age of increased internet activities, video streaming, social networking, pop-up ads, music streaming, and tons of data-hungry apps fighting for attention on our mobile phones, data has become a vital commodity and should be managed like scare goods. If not, you might find your data bills punching huge holes in your pocket every month.
When you go through some people’s phones, you would start wondering whether they are selling apps. Most apps update themselves or run in the background using data. Others are notification-enabled and would send you notifications every now and then. Learn to keep only apps that you NEED. If you don’t use an app for months, what is it doing on your phone?
2. Monitor your data usage
Most smartphones are contain data usage monitor and settings so that you can monitor and limit the amount of data you use over a period of time. Been aware of the activities or applications that drain your mobile data is the first step to learning how to save mobile data. Once you know your enemy apps, easily set up data limits and alerts to tell when you exceed data limits in Settings menu.
3. Restrict Apps from running in background
You see all those apps you use daily but consumes data even when you are not using them, their medicine is to simply disable them from running in the background through Settings. However, these background feature allows apps to update themselves and complete tasks even when you move to another app. So be sure to know if you need an app to run in the background before you disable this feature. Stopping apps from running in the background helps reduce data consumption and also preserves your device’s battery life.
4. Curtail online video streaming
Perhaps this one should have come first. We simply love those funny videos, highlights and other video content that consume most of your mobile data. Excessive streaming of videos, music, high quality images or GIF files, are data pits. You need to entertain yourself responsibly to save data. If you can’t avoid the entertainment your smartphone brings, you can set the image quality or resolutions at lower rates in your Settings menu.
5. Use Wi-Fi Only for Updates or Downloading Heavy Files
A big way to save mobile data is by setting your smartphone to auto-updates only when on Wi-Fi connection. We know we haven’t gotten to the stage of unlimited Wi-Fi connection in Nigeria yet, still there are certain locations you can count on for free Wi-Fi. This way, you get to save some significant volume of the data that goes into oblivion from auto-updates. Furthermore, you can set downloads of heavy contents such as videos, high-resolution images and music files on Wi-Fi Only too.
6. Caching and preload data
Caching enables you enjoy preloaded content at any time, without using further mobile data. A cache is a hardware or software component that stores data so future requests for that data can be served faster. The data stored in a cache might be the result of an earlier computation or the duplicate of data stored elsewhere. Certain apps allow you to store data temporarily so you can cache as much content as possible. You don’t need further data to access cached data while they are available.
To buy data instantly from your mobile phone at no extra cost, simply visit vtpass.com, select your network provider, and buy data you. No matter your network provider: MTN, Airtel, Glo, 9mobile or Smile data, VTpass got you covered.
Smile Telecoms remains one of the largest sub-1 GHz 4G LTE commercial networks in Africa, operating in the “future proof’ low band, 800 MHz band, and mid-band. The company is physical in five major African countries but operating in over 50 countries.
A
lot of people know the usual Smile data packages that we have covered in a different
article, but they have never experienced Smile Unlimited data plans. In this
article, we would explore Smile Unlimited data packages in terms of speed, data
plans and data sizes.
What does it mean to be Unlimited?
People
confuse the term “Unlimited data” a lot. While certain advanced networks offer
truly unlimited data, others do not. Unlimited means there is no cap on your
data usage i.e. you are not buying 2GB or 200GB worth of data. You are buying
uncapped internet access.
However,
internet speed or Mbps (megabits per second) is what defines unlimited plans.
Logically, the more you use data, the slower it would get. This is a measure to
stop heavy downloaders from clogging the network. Imagine downloading 2GB worth
of data per day?
With
Smile Unlimited Platinum, subscribers get to enjoy speed up to 6Mbps and no
throttling of data speeds. Depending on what you do with data, this package is
truly unlimited. Now let’s look at the plans.
Smile Unlimited data plans
UnlimitedLite: This plan goes for N10,230 and is
valid for 30 days. Now available in Asaba, Abuja, Benin, Ibadan, Lagos, Port
Harcourt, Onitsha and Kaduna, this is the least of the unlimited plans.
UnlimitedLite has a data speed of up to 8Mbps. That will reduce once 25GB data
has been used. A customer may recharge with another unlimited plan to
bring data speeds back to 8Mbps.
Unlimited Essential: With N15,350 you can get this data plan for a 30 days validity period. The plan allows you to use 50% data during the day and 50% at night. Great if you keep late-night online periods. Night usage commences from midnight to 6AM. Data speed of up to 8Mbps will reduce once 30GB data has been used, either during the day or night.
Unlimited Premium: Premium cost N20,270 for a period of 30 days. This plan has no data limits up to 3Mpbs. With the premium version, you have 4 Mbit/s until you reach 80GB of usage.
UnlimitedPlatinum: The Platinum plan was recently
launched. This plan goes for N24,000 for a period of 30 days. The Unlimited
Platinum ensures that customers enjoy super-fast, super reliable internet for
as long as they want by offering data speed of up to 6Mbps, with no data, with
no throttling of data speed.
Smile Unlimited plans are remarkable given their top speeds and coverage. To buy any of these Unlimited plans simply top-up here or log on to vtpass.com, a fast, convenient, and secure way to make payments online.
Now that you know everything about Smile 4G Data packages and Unlimited plans, would you like to learn about Smile Voice Calls?
So we are checking out Smile data today to see what data plans you might enjoy. Smile communication prides itself as one of Africa’s biggest 4G LTE mobile broadband network.
Launched in 2013 in the Tanzanian headquarters Dar es Salam, the company has since then extended its operation to over 7 regions establishing itself as West Africa’s premier 4G LTE broadband network with over 8 cities covered in Nigeria.
Smile has the objective of providing millions of Africans with access to high-quality internet at affordable prices. Smile Nigeria broadly divides its customers into corporate and personal plans.
Before we delve into the different plans, let’s see the cities that Smile covers in Nigeria. You don’t want to buy a data plan you can’t use, right? To fully enjoy Smile data service, you would need to live in any of these cities;
Lagos
Abuja
Port Harcourt
Benin City
Ibadan
Kaduna
Onitsha
Asaba
Different Smile Data Plans
Smile FlexiDaily: 1GB for N350 valid for 24 hours
If you use a lot of data daily or looking to upload/download heavy data files in one day, the FlexiDaily says hi.
Smile FlexiWeekly: 2GB for N1020 valid for 7 days
Ok, so you need up to 2GB of data but 1-3 days are not enough to use it all? Use of FlexiWeekly instead.
Smile Midnite: 3GB at N1,530 for 7 days
This plan allows you to use data from midnight until 6AM in the morning within a period of seven days.
Smile Weekend Only: 3GB at N1530 from 9PM Friday night to Sunday Midnight
If you’re online only on weekends, this data plan is designed for you. Note that it expires by Sunday midnight.
Smile VaulePlus:
This category of Smile data plan allows you to make use of 50% of your data during the day and 50% at night. Great plan if you shuffle your data between night and day. You make your choice depending on the volume of data you need at a period. The ValuePlus plans include:
Smile VaulePlus 1.5GB at N1,020 valid for 30 days
Smile ValuePlus 5GB at N3,070 valid for 30 days
Smile ValuePlus7GB at N4,090 valid for 30 days
Smile ValuePlus 11GB at N5,110 valid for 30 days
Smile ValuePlus 15GB at N6,140 valid for 30 days
Smile ValuePlus 21GB at N8,190 valid for 30 days
Smile ValuePlus 31GB at N11,260 valid for 30 days
Smile BumpaValue:
BumpaValue data group is designed for heavy data users over a medium period of time. If you want plans that go over the 30 days benchmark, try out the BumpaValue plans. The Smile BumpaValue includes:
BumpaValue 30GB at N15,350 valid for 60 days
BumpaValue 60GB at N30,700 valid for 90 days
BumpaValue 80GB at N40,950 valid for 120 days
Smile Anytime:
Another group of data plans. Smile Anytime is specifically designed for users who use fewer data over a lengthy period or as the case may be. We are talking about 12 whole months’ validity! Check out the plans:
Anytime 10GB at N8,190 valid for 12 months
Anytime 20GB for N16,380 valid for 12 months
Anytime 50GB at N36,850 valid for 12 months
Anytime 100GB at N71,650 valid for 12 months
Anytime 200GB at N138,200 valid for 12 months
There you have it! All Smile data plans in their updated year 2020 prices. All the information is verified by Smile. However, if you want to go Unlimited and wondering what Smile Unlimited plans look like, click right here.
With all these data plans and options, you can see that Smile is a fantastic service provider. Now you don’t need any hassle or stress to subscribe for any of Smile data plans. Simply visit vtpass.com/smile to buy right from your mobile phone.
We are indeed very excited to announce the launch of a new service on our platform, VTpass.
Smile data now available on VTpass
VTpass, a leading bills payment platform in Nigeria now offers the purchase of Smile 4G LTE data service on its platform.
Unlike other network providers, Smile mobile broadband provides an unbeatable 4G LTE network and also allows for flexibility with its data plan coupled with its guaranteed SuperFast, reliable broadband.
Below is a breakdown of the Smile network data plan & prices or simply click on this to redirect you to the VTpass website;
You can now renew your Smile data on VTpass with its superfast internet to meet both your personal and business needs.
What more are you waiting for?
Get on the fast wave, and join the Smile community to get
high-quality internet access for business, social media, music, movies and
video streaming, online gaming, downloads, and mobile internet browsing.
Follow the simple steps below to renew your Smile data on VTpass.
